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by dudeface
Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:30 pm
Forum: Videos
Topic: Now this is just absolutely ridiculous.
Replies: 9
Views: 1790

Re: Now this is just absolutely ridiculous.

Mamods being so fast, it might just get all the way around on one fill up without a load. At least it might get this far, I don't know if that was even a full trip around the line!
by dudeface
Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:46 pm
Forum: Locomotives - Electric
Topic: Speeder for BM&LO
Replies: 23
Views: 3033

Re: Speeder for BM&LO

I made these balsa blocks to glue the battery pack inside the boiler. The back slides off without any screws holding it on so changing the batteries won't be a problem.
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by dudeface
Fri Jan 19, 2024 6:30 am
Forum: Videos
Topic: Now this is just absolutely ridiculous.
Replies: 9
Views: 1790

Now this is just absolutely ridiculous.

If you ever doubted your insignificance, here you go.
by dudeface
Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:20 pm
Forum: Locomotives - Electric
Topic: Speeder for BM&LO
Replies: 23
Views: 3033

Re: Speeder for BM&LO

Hand for scale.
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by dudeface
Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:15 pm
Forum: Locomotives - Electric
Topic: Speeder for BM&LO
Replies: 23
Views: 3033

Re: Speeder for BM&LO

The story so far.
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I used a utility knife, it's very soft plastic. Cladding also crappily cut to sizeish.

Edit: If it's upside down, sorry, it wasn't upside down on the iPad and when I downloaded the picture it was right side up.
by dudeface
Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:54 pm
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: SE scale on O gauge track
Replies: 1
Views: 1099

SE scale on O gauge track

Would it be called SEn18 or SE32? :scratch: I prefer SEn18 because it states the real life gauge it represents.
by dudeface
Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:40 am
Forum: Locomotives - Electric
Topic: Speeder for BM&LO
Replies: 23
Views: 3033

Re: Speeder for BM&LO

GAP wrote: Thu Jan 18, 2024 4:11 am An intriguing build; I'll be watching this, please provide updates of your progress and of course lots of pictures.
I will! :thumbleft:
by dudeface
Thu Jan 18, 2024 2:08 am
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: Palmerston - Small England Loco as built
Replies: 65
Views: 13473

Re: Palmerston - Small England Loco as built

Looking good Trevor :thumbup:
by dudeface
Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:52 am
Forum: Locomotives - Electric
Topic: Speeder for BM&LO
Replies: 23
Views: 3033

Speeder for BM&LO

When I have some kind of a railway I'll need some kind of a locomotive, so I have started this vertical boiler speeder. Originally the plan was to put the batteries in the boiler and the motor under the floor. Then I found the pictured 2 AA battery box with a switch and decided to put that under the...
by dudeface
Fri Jan 12, 2024 4:26 am
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: Time to build a railway...but where?
Replies: 3407
Views: 1122840

Re: Time to build a railway...but where?

The tender pivots with the chassis.
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by dudeface
Wed Jan 10, 2024 6:39 pm
Forum: Railways & Layouts
Topic: UTRR - Unrealistically Tight Radius Ry. (Gn15 scale)
Replies: 6
Views: 1428

UTRR - Unrealistically Tight Radius Ry. (Gn15 scale)

After cutting an 18 inch hole in the plywood I used for my Christmas tree layout, the E&GCT, I looked at the resulting disc and decided it had to be a micro layout. Drew having introduced me to Gn15 scale, and since I had these trees my grandma made me, I decided it would be Gn15. I'll have to p...
by dudeface
Wed Jan 10, 2024 4:57 pm
Forum: Garden Railway Technical Help & Advice
Topic: O gauge track for 16mm?
Replies: 24
Views: 10508

Re: O gauge track for 16mm?

Tingewickmax wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:40 pm He said he would be running it on "G Sale" track...
Heck G scale isn't even a real scale.....
by dudeface
Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:50 am
Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
Topic: March 2024 Gallery CLOSING DATE 1st MARCH
Replies: 36
Views: 9395

Re: March 2024 Gallery Entries HERE please.

Idk Aaron, that's the biggest grasshopper I think I've ever seen...
by dudeface
Wed Jan 03, 2024 6:27 pm
Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
Topic: March 2024 Gallery CLOSING DATE 1st MARCH
Replies: 36
Views: 9395

Re: March 2024 Gallery Entries HERE please.

A giant furry creature wreaks havoc on the railway.
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As you can see, she's brought down the giant lunar mining robot.
by dudeface
Tue Jan 02, 2024 2:14 am
Forum: Videos
Topic: Wallingford Industrial Rail Ltd. 1 January 2024
Replies: 2
Views: 1177

Re: Wallingford Industrial Rail Ltd. 1 January 2024

I'm not having any problem with it Ian.
by dudeface
Mon Jan 01, 2024 7:15 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Happy New Year (2024)
Replies: 1
Views: 1121

Re: Happy New Year (2024)

:happynewyear
by dudeface
Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:36 pm
Forum: Locomotives - Electric
Topic: Simplex Yard Shunter
Replies: 28
Views: 6141

Re: Simplex Yard Shunter

Nice. :thumbup:
by dudeface
Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:31 pm
Forum: General Garden Railways
Topic: Marc Horovitz is Wrong. (IMO)
Replies: 96
Views: 23968

Re: Marc Horovitz is Wrong. (IMO)

I guess that's sort of a secondary boiler on the top?
by dudeface
Wed Dec 27, 2023 5:19 pm
Forum: Quarterly Garden Railway Gallery
Topic: March 2024 Gallery CLOSING DATE 1st MARCH
Replies: 36
Views: 9395

Re: March 2024 Gallery Entries HERE please.

Maybe I'll have some kind of a railway by then!
Edit: What was I thinking? No I won't! :lol: